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LA GRANGE, TEXAS (In the Heart of CRIP Aland), FRIDAY, JANUARY, 6, 1961
NUMBER 19
C.C. Board Talks Industry Feelers
Three ‘Potentials’
Discussed; Vote
Committee Named
Inquires of two manufac-
turing concerns relative to lo-
cating here and arrangements
for the election of four hoard
members were high on the a-
genda of La Grange Chambei
of Commerce directors at
their regular meeting Tues-
day night.
Also discussed at length was
a proposed locally-financed in-
dustry that would employ a
number of people Further de-
tails are to he divulged as
soon as plans jell and more can
be told.
As for the two-out-of-town
concerns that made inquiry,
it was voted unanimously that
representatives from the firms
be invited to come here and
get a first-hand look as to
what La Grange has to offer.
The annual election of dir-
ectors is scheduled at the reg-
ular February meeting of the
Chamber, but the nominated
panel will be officially an-
nounced at the membership
meeting next Monday night,
Jan. 9. Aubrey D. Voelkel is
chairman of the committee,
and Ernest Kallus and Gilbert
J. Wessels are members.
Directors whose terms ex-
pire this year are those of Les-
ter E. von Rosenberg, Ed A.
Giese, Mrs. Verna .Reichert
and Mrs. Helen Harris. They
are pot .eligible to succeed
themselves at ilfi* time. Hold
Sulak, Mr. V
sets and Mr. Kallus.
In a final business Hem, the
directors approved an appro-
priation for an advertisement
to be inserted in Thomas Re-
gister, a trade journal of na-
tionwide circulation. The ad
would tell of the advantages
La Grange offers to prospec-
tive industry.
Mrs. Gussie Struve
Dies At Robstown
Funeral services were held
at Robstown Monday at 10 a
rn. for Mrs. Hazel Louise Cox
Struve, who passed away last
Friday. Burial was at Rob-
stown.
She was the wife of Gussie
Struve, a La Grange native.
Surviving, beside her hus-
band, are two daughters and
three sons; a brother, Milton
“Mil” Cox of La Grange; and
four sisters.
Mr. and Mrs. Milton Cox and
family attended the funeral
Monday; and paying their res-
pects to tiie deceased Sunday
were Mr and Mrs. J. H. Bish-
op and Victor Struve.
2 Other Indictments
POPE BILLED BY GRAND JURY
” Soil, Water Program Ok’d For County
The November Fayette
county grand jury, in a re-
called session here Wednes-
day morning, returned throe
felony indictments into dis-
trict court.
Indictments were:
iQB Club Closes
Successful Year;
Figures Released
The financial statement for
1960 of the La Grange Quater-
back club, copies of which
were mailed to members last
weekend, reveal the organiza-
tion had a successful year.
The statement, issued bv out-
going Pres Chris F Berry,
showed an income of $1,112
for the year, which included
140 memberships at $5, and
$239 in breakfast tickets at
75 cents.
Expenditures came to $944 -
47. The larger items were
$163.20 for the barbecue for
the high school team and
coaches, $92.62 for the junior
high stew. $249.75 for meal tic-
kets for members, $75 for an
Lawrence Chalmers Pope,
robbery by assault by use of
firearms—-the robbery • of the
Farmers State Bank in Schu-
lenburg, on Nov. 12.
Cecil Gilbert Donahoo and
Robert Daniel Cox. robbery
by assault by use of firearms—
hold-up of the Reinhard Wink-
ler package store in Sehulen-
burg, in which $133.18 was ta-
ken on Dec. 13.
Anthony Charles Sobaski
and Avon August Turner Jr.,
breaking into and entering a
motor ' vehicle, and theft over
$50—the attempt to steal a
car owned by Jerome Chudej
at Engle on Dec. 16.
The cases have been set for
trial Wednesday morning, Jan.
18. District Clerk Ike J. Pe-
tras said, however, that it is
doubtful that Pope would be
brought here for trial at this
time.
Tietjen Reports
Rutersville Rain
Elo Tietjen, Rutersville’s
“weatherman,” comes in with
his annual rain report, which
edging machine. $131 90 for ! shows that 57.25 was recorded
’ ” — —J by him in 1960. Here is his
month-by-month report, along
Locals’ Kin Is
Buried At Pasadena
C. V. Breazeale, 83, passed
away in Pasadena on Friday,
Dec 30. Funeral services were
held the following day at the
Chapel of Roses Funeral Home
in Pasadena.
Survivors are a half-sister,
Mrs. Henry Goldammer of
Houston, one niece. Mrs. Bob
H. Weeren of La Grange, and
several cousins in Houston
and Pasadena. He was a bro-
ther-in-law of Alfred Ginzel of
La Grange.
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Weeren
attended the funeral services.
HOLY NAME SUNDAY
Sunday. Jan. 8, is the Feast
of the Holy Family and the an-
nual Holy Name Society Ral-
ly Day. Following reception of
new members at the 7 o’clock
Mass breakfast will be served
at the school cafeteria at which
there will be a guest speaker.
All members and candidates
will march in a body from the
school to the church at 6:50 a
new sideline markers, and
$101.90 for additional sideline
jackets for players.
The statement reflected a
beginning balance of $154.37,
and a “brought forward” bal-
ance qf 1321-90 as of Dec. 15.
der to take ciye of projects
contemplated at the beginning
of next football season. A new
motion picture projector is on
the current “needed” list.
The incoming president also
stated that meeting attendance
fell off some during the latter
part of the season, and thought
is already being given by the
newly-elected officers to ways
and means of increasing at-
tendance next year. He added
that suggestions from the mem-
bership would be welcomed.
BALDWIN GRAD
Mrs. Andrey Jean Bush,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Har-
ry Otto of Flatonia. has com-
pleted the requirements of the
executive secretarial course at
Baldwin Business college,
Yoakum, and has received her
diploma. Mrs. Bush is a grad-
uate of Flatonia High school.
She is the granddaughter of
Mrs. John Schwake, and the
niece of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley
Webb and Mr and Mrs. Clar-
ence Schwake of La Grange.
JC’s MEET MONDAY
La Grange’s Javcees will
discuss final all-sports ban-
quet plans when they meet in
the upstairs meeting room of
the La Grange State Bank
Monday, Jan. 9 at 7:30 p. m.
A good membership turnout is
urged by Pres. Lawrence
Adamcik.
with comparative figures for
the two previous years:
I960 1959 1958
Jan. 1.90 .90
Feb. 3.55
Mar........90
June ltAO 3.40 ___
July ....... 5.60 3.15 3.30
Aug..... 2.15 3.30 1.40
Sept .50 610 11.55
Oct 790 790 3.2t>
Nov. 550 1.70 3.50
Dec 5.20 4.50 2.20
Totals 57.25 52.05 44 90
Figures for other past years,
as reported by Mr. Tietjen, in-
cluded: 1957. 74 95; 19,56. 29 -
35, 1955. 30.13; and 1954, 19.18
inches.
Leps Host Gonzales
In Final Warmup
La Grange Leopard thinly-
clads engage the Gonzales A-
paches in the local gym Fri-
day night to wind up their
non-district schedule.
Coach Jim Johnson's lads
will be out to make it two
straight over the invading A-
paches, having downed Gon-
zales by 64-54 earlier in the
exhibition season. The “B”
teams of the two schools clash
in the opener at 6:30 p. m.,
followed by the main attrac-
tion.
The Leopards are 11-5 on the
warmup season, while the re-
serves hold an impressive 8-2
record.
District 20-AA competition
begins next Tuesday night,
with La Grange going to Katy
for the opener, than engages
Columbus here Friday night,
Jan. 13.
NOW UNDERWAY
Need For Giving
Complete Data
Told By Izobpries
The yearly enumeration of
scholastics is now underway in
Fayette county, and will con-
tinue through Jan 31. County
Supt. Fritz E. Lobpries re-
ports.
The superintendent explain-
ed that all children who will
be six years 'of age or over,
but under 18 on Sept. 1, 1961,
must be enumerated
Enumerators for the coun-
ty’s eight districts are:
La Grange, C. A. Lemmons;
Round Top-Carmine. W. D.
Duvall; Fayetteville, Elo Roh-
de; Flatonia, R. B. Froehner;
Schulenburg, A. C. Winkel-
mann; Praha, John Stryk;
Cistern, John J. Beck: and
Hostyn, Supt. Lobpries.
Mr. Lobpries pointed out it
is vitally important that all
spaces on the census blanks
be properly filled out, as this
information—in later years—
can be highly important as an
aide to securing a birth cer-
tificate. as well as establishing
vital data for Social Security
and old-age assistance pur-
poses.
The cooperation of all par-
ents and guardians is solicited
in an effort to make the enu-
meration 100 per cent corn-
enumerator^ to
children pro-
CISTERN SCHOOL RECOMMENDED
FOR COMPLETE ACCREDITATION
Cistern's common school dis-
trict, which some time ago had
been warned of conditions
that did not meet accredita-
tion standards, has now been
given a clean slate and recom-
mended for full accreditation
by the Texas Education Agen-
cy
This information is contain-
ed in the copy of a full report
as prepared by W R. Cate,
TEA's assistant director of the
division of school accredita-
tion. and received recently by
Co. Supt. Fritz R. Lobpries.
The report states the dis*
trict of 202 square miles has
a $1 tax rate, of which 90 cents
is for maintenance and opera-
tion and 10 cents for bond pay-
ments. Bonded indebtedness is
only $600, which is to be com-
pletely repaid at the end of
the current school year.
“Since the first accredita-
tion' visit, improvements have
been made at a cost of slightly
more than $10,000,” the report
continues. “This money was
already on hand and the dis-
trict did not incur any addi-
tional indebtedness.”
(See CISTERN, Page 2)
and have
perly listed.
Although the deadline is
still some time off, those who
will need to do so may also
sign transfer slips when they
enumerate their youngsters.
Eastern Star Dates
School And Banquet
The Eastern Star is having
a banquet at the Hermes Caf-
eteria at fi p m. on Monday,
J an. 9. Tickets are $1.50. Those
wishing to attend are asked to
contact Mrs Jim Flournoy,
phone 133, or Mrs. Roy Leh-
mann, phone 541W, for reser-
vations.
The event is being held in
conjunction with a school of
instruction scheduled for that
date. A luncheon will be serv-
ed at noon at the Methodist
church for members only. Tic-
kets to the luncheon may be
secured from Mrs. Lehmann
also.
The banquet, however, is
open to the public.
Bellville’s Koy Is
Magazine Honoree
Beliville's Ernie Koy Jr.
was the only Texas schoolboy
football payer honored on the
1960 Teen Mapazine high
school All-America football
team.
Koy, a fi-3, 204-pound half-
back, was honored with a first
team berth in a backfield that
included Ronnie Bliev of Til-
den High school, Brooklyn N.
Y., Wavne Bush of Nashville,
Tenn., Fred Mazurek of Rep-
ublic. Pa and Dick Butkus of
Chicago, 111.
Koy was also selected re-
cently on the high school All-
America team.
IT’S A BOY!
S Sgt and Mrs Bob C Van
Sycle of Great Falls, Montana
became the parents of a baby
boy on Dec 29. The little lad
weighed 9 pounds 6 ounces and
was named Carl Allen The
mother is the former Nelrose
Schmidt, daughter of Mr. and
■Mrs. Rudolph Schmidt of
here
Cummins WCII) No. 1
Will Elect Three
Directors Jan. 10
Three directors of the Lee-
Fayette Counties Cummins!
Creek Water Control and Im- !
provement District No. 1 will
be named by property tax pay- i
ing voters living in the Cum- i
mins Creek watershed in an
election scheduled for Tues-1
day. Jan. 10.
The balloting will be held at I
the court houses at Fayette-
ville and Round Top for the
purpose of electing three direc-
tors, each to serve for two
years, to fill the expiring pos-
itions of Jake Fritsch, Wesley
Kraus and G. S. Kimble.
The only incumbent to file
for re-election is G. S. Kim-
ble. Others who have filed
are: E. T. Radnez. Wallie Sch-
midt and Alvin W. Meinardus.
Space is provided on the ballot
for write-in votes.
Election judge is Edwin F.
Kubena and Edgar Meitzen is
associate judge at Fayetteville,
while Dennis Etzel is judge
and Ewald Weigelt is associ-
ate judge at Round Top.
To be eligible to vote, a vo-
ter must be a resident proper-
ty owner in the watershed and
must otherwise qualify as a
voter. If there is any doubt as
to eligibility, the directors
urge that a check be made
with the election officials.
Polls will be open at 8 a. m.
andjskjpe at 7 p. m.
Held At Muldoon
Funeral services were held
Thursday morning at the Mul-
doon Baptist Church for Wil-
liam Blantie Burr, 62, who
passed away Wednesday mor-
ning at Fayette Memorial hos-
pital. The Rev. Henry Adrion
HI officiated. Burial was in the
Ebenezer cemetery, near
Huntsville, where graveside
services were held at 3:30 p.
m.
A native of St. Paul, Ark-
ansas, where he was born June
1, 1898, he was the son of
Charlie and Ellen Elam Burr,
and was marired on Aug. 2,
1952 at Huntsville to Alice
Randolph. He lived in Hous-
ton for about 20 years before
moving to the West Point area
about 18 months ago where he
engaged in farming.
He is survived by his wife;
one son, Melvin Ray Burr of
El Cajon, Calif., one brother,
Floy Burr of Houston, two
nephews and one grandchild.
Koenig Funeral Home was
in charge of the funeral.
NEW COMMISSIONERS SWORN
X
County Judge Henry J.
Sc-hovajsa is pictured above as
he administers the oath of of-
fice to Fayette’s two new com-
missioners, Eddie Zouzalik of
Flatonia. Precinct 3, ar.d Gun-
ther “Grinny” Behrens, Pre-
cinct 1. Commr. R. A. Pietsch
of Precinct 2 and Commr.
Henry Dittrich of Precinct 4,
far right, watch the proceed-
ings.
Seated are outgoing
Commrs. A. V Smith of Pre-
cinct 1, left, and Wallace
Cherry of Precinct 3.
Here Next Tuesday
SWINE PROGRAM MEET SLATED
A long-range program of
improving Fayette county’s
swine types, management and
other phases in connection
Rites Held For
Alex R. Eckermann
Alex R. Eckermann of Bell-
ville, 89, passed away in the
Schulenburg Rest Home Tues-
day and funeral services were
held Thursday afternoon at the
with the industry, is due to be
set off at a meeting Tuesday
night, Jan. 10 at 7:30 p. m., in
the Ag building here.
Main purpose of the session
will be that of organizing a
county swine improvement
committee, along with the
election of a chairman, secre-
tary, and a steering commit-
tee.
EffoSts at setting such a pro-
gram into motion were given
the "gd\ ahead” sign last Nov.
Methodist cemetery
Mr. Eckermann, a retired
farmer, was a native of Indus-
try where he was born May
26. 1872, son of Ernst and Joh-
anna Blobel Eckermann, and
had lived in Bellville since
1950. He was married to the
former Paula Franke, who
survives.
Also surviving are two dau-
ghters, Mrs. Woodrow Whoest
of Bellville and Mrs. Wesley
Bahlmann of Gonzales; two
sons, Gilbert and Cornell Eck-
ermann of Bellville: nine!
children and two great-grand-
children.
Mr. Eckermann remained at
the Zaskoda Chapel in Indus-
try until noon Thursday. Koe-
nig Funeral Home was in
charge of the funeral.
Galveston Lad
Seeks Pen Pals
The Record is in receipt of a
note from a Galveston young-
ster. which reads:
“I am 13 years old and at-
tend Lovenberg Junior high
here in Galveston. I am in the
seventh grade, am five feet
two inches tall, have short
brown hair, green eves, and
weigh 105 pounds. My favor-
ite sport is tennis, and I enjoy
records and dancing. I would
like a pen pal at La Grange ”
The name and address are:
Jamie Moran, 3107 Avenue Q,
Galveston, Texas.
Visitors In the home of Mr
and Mrs. Edmund Harbers and
Audrey during the Christmas
and New Year holidays were
Mr and Mrs. Monroe Dunk
and family, Mr. and Mrs.
James Freudenburg and son of
La Grange; Mr and Mrs Ed-
gar Tiedt and family of Hous-
ton; Miss Ethel Melcher and
Miss Angela Gallimore of
Houston; and Miss Mariano
Ohnheiser of San Marcos.
Mr. and Mrs. Julius Holubec
and J. C. spent the Christmas
holidays in Houston with Mr.
and Mrs Roy Clegg. Their
children and grandchildren,
Mr and Mrs. Cleo Holubec
and children, were guests also.
Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Roh-
wer and son of Austin spent
the New Year holidays here
with their parents, Mr. and
Mrs E. T. Rohwer.
Jack Schwake and John
Wilson spent the New Year
weekend in New Orleans and
attended the Rice-Mississippi
game played at the Sugar
Bowl on New Year Day.
swine producers to give
views on the merits and ad-
vantages of such an educat-
ional program.
One of the chief points Mr.
Bippert stressed is that so
much more can be accomplish-
ed when working with more
people at a time They, in
turn, will go back to their res-
pective communities and pass
on the information gathered at
planned committee sessions.
However, there also would be
periodic educational meetings
for all interested swine pro-
ducers—similar to those held
by the dairymen’s groups.
Mr. Bippert points out that
the 1954 farm census showed
there were more hogs on Fay-
ette county farms than in any
other county in Texas—how
the county stood at the time
of the '59 ag census isn’t yet
known, bul it’s sure to still be
very near the top. At any rate,
the agent vows that there is
much to be learned in develop-
ing a better meat-type hog,
overall management, breeding
(involving cross-breeding),
feeding, housing and equip-
ment, diseases and parasites.
All of these would provide
study material for the propos-
ed committee.
AH swine producers who car)
are urged to attend Tuesday
night’s meeting, at which T. D.
Tanksley, Extension Service
swine specialist, will be pre-
sent to assist with plans for
forming the committee
Headline Stories
1960 REVIEW IS CONTINUED
(Continued from last issue)
July
Wilbur “Buddy” Ganzer,
Ammannsville native, was ac-
cidentally electrocuted at
Pleasant Grove— A .standby
electric generator was install-
ed at Fayette Memorial hos-
pital here—Funeral for Mrs
Bessie Zbranek. 41, was held at
Ellinger—Fayette’s auto H
cense receipts were up by 114
in number and by $5,183 in
cash—Entertaining July 4th
fetes were held at the VFW
Home here and at Round Top
—Co. Atty. Walter OaMjan
was named La Grange Lion
of The Year—F. C. Prenzler,
La Grange school faculty
member, resigned to take a
similar post at Burton—Fu-
nerals were held here for Mrs.
Paul Lehmann, 76, and at Aus-
tin for Clemens “Timmy” Pohi.
5(5—Over 700 attended Camp
Lone Star Day despite a hea-
vy rain.
John L. Suiak 52, The Re-
cord s editor and manager,
passed away at Nix Hospital
in San Antonio — Melvin C.
Dippel. 63, well known retir-
(&» REVIEW, Page 2)
ASC Panel Names
16 Practices For
Cost-Share Plan
, Fayette county’s ASC com-
mittee is again ready to accept
farmers’ ACP cost-sharing re-
quests for carrying out soil and
water conservation practices
on farms and ranches this
year, according to Kenny L.
Stork, office manager.
The Federal government will
share with farmers approxi-
mately one-half of the cost of
each practice approved, prov-
ided the practice is carried out
according to specifications, Mr.
Stork pointed out.
Farmers planning to use
home-grown grass seed should
first get a seed analysis, oth-
erwise, the seed will not qua-
lify.
To be eligible for cost-shar-
ing, requests must be filed in
writing with the county com-
mittee before performance of
the practice is begun* the of-
fice manager explained.
Two years ago—1959—the
Federal government paid
$133,725 to county farmers and
ranchers as its 50 per cent
share of conservation practi-
ces, but figures for last year’s
program have not yet. been
tallied. Total allocation for
1961 is $116,965.
The following 16 practices
have been approved for Fay-
ette county this year:
A-2, Initial establishment of
a permanent vegetative cover
for soil protection or as a need-
ed land-use adjustment.
A-4, Initial treatment of
ciayil
~*yipa „ i . ■■ w—
improvement ana protection.
A-7, Initial establishment of
a stand of trees on farmland
for purposes other than the
prevention of water and wind
erosion.
B-l, Improvement of an es-
tablished vegetative cover for
soil or watershed protection.
B-2, Improvement of Veget-
ative cover on rangeland by
deferred grazing.
B-3, Controlling competitive
shrubs to permit the growth
of adequate desirable vegeta-
tive cover for soil protection
on range or pasture land.
B-5, Constructing wells for
livestock water as a means of
protecting vegetative cover.
B-7, Constructing dams, pits
or ponds for livestock water as
a means of protecting vegeta-
tive cover or to make practi-
cable the utilization of the
land for vegetative cover.
B-8, Installing pipelines fot
livestock water as a means of
protecting vegetative cover op
to make practicable the utiliz-
ation of the land for vegeta-
tive cover.
B-10, Improvement- of 4
stand of forest trees on farm-
land.
C-l, Tnitial establishment of
permanent sod waterways to
dispose of excess water
without causing erosion.
C-4, Constructing terraces
to detain or control the flovp
of water and check soil ero-
sion.
C-5, Constructing diversion
terraces to intercept runoff
and divert excess water to
protect outlets.
C-9 Constructing open pop*
manent drainage systems tf|
dispose of excess water.
Two other practices fof
1961—but for which details
have not been completed—
are summer legume planting'
and development of pastut ;
springs
Mr and Mrs Glenn J. Hat.
termann and family had at
Christmas holidav vuests
and Mrs. C E I,ee and Ra
Lee of Luling, Mr and Mrs
K Lee and daughters and
and Mrs. C H Scheel of 1
Antonio New Year holidays
alters were Col Garland H
and Miss Dixie Jacobi of !
Antonia
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